Coin safe and detector



PATENTED APR. 12, 1853.

I No. 9,661.

J. J. HATGHER.

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UNITED STATES PAN FFICE.

J. J. HATOI-IER, OF SPRING GARDEN, PENNSYLVANIA.

COIN SAFE AND DETECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 9,661, dated April 12, 1853.

To all w/wm z't may concern Be it known that I, Jnoon J. HATOI-IER, of the district of Spring Garden, county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful In provements in Apparatus for Holding and Weighing or Otherwise Testing the Genuineness of Coins; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part thereof, in which-- Figure 1, represents the case for containing the coins and weighing apparatus. Fig. 2, represents the same case inverted and the weighing apparatus drawn out, and a coin in place. Fig. 3, represents a Vertical section taken through the red line 00 a: of Fig. 1.

Similar letters in the several figures denote the same parts.

The nature of my invention consists in providing a case or chamber, in which the coins may be permanently held between a movable spring pad, and the top of the case, in such manner as that when one coin is drawn out, the next will rise in its place, and so on until all are in turn raised up to the place whence they are drawn out. And also in furnishing a coin case with a weighing or gaging apparatus, so arranged as to.

be slid within, and be entirely protected by, the case, when not in use, by which means it is easily kept in order, and conveniently drawn out when required for testing the coins.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawlhe case or chamber A, may be made of any suitable metal and of such form and size, as may be most convenient for carrying it in the pocket, and for containing such number of pieces as may be found essential. A spiral spring 13, is contained within it, one end of which rests against the division plate O, and on the other end is attached a metallic pad D, between which adjustable pad, and the top E, of the case, the coins F are placed and held. In putting the coins into the case the spring B, is contracted until the case is full, and as the coins are taken out, the expanding of the spring, brings each piece up in regular succession to the place of exit whence it may be forced out by the slide Gr, having a pin H extending downward from it sufiiciently far to catch one piece, as represented in Fig. 3, but which pin may be made to force out two or more,. by enlarging the slot out of which they are drawn, and lengthening the pin. Instead, however of the pin and slide, a portion of the top may be cut away so as to slip out the coin by the use of the thumb and finger, or by other device essentially the same.

In the lower end of the case, I arrange a sliding weighing or gaging apparatus as follows, and which is represented in Fig. 2 as being drawn out and in the act of testing the piece I, and in Fig. 3 as being closed up and entirely within the case, where it is perfectly secure from accident of any kind, and kept in place by a cap J, screwed into the end of the case.

K is an inner cylinder, sliding within an outer one L, the two being connected by a delicate spring M, and both these cylinders, and the spring are of such size as to be readily inclosed within the main outer case A. In the top of the inner cylinder K, is a slot of just sufficient size to test the thickness (and may be so made, as also at the same time, to test the diameter, though not so here represented) of the genuine coins and the weight of the genuine coins are ascertained by the compressing of the spring M, which is indicated, through a slot in the outer cylinder L, as at 1, Fig. 2. in the outer cylinder A, there is a slot N, through which the number of coins may at any time be counted without opening the case.

There may be many modifications of this general plan, but the substance of the invention rests upon the inclosing within the cylinder an apparatus, for holding and delivering the coins with great readiness; and an apparatus for weighing or gaging or bot so made as to he slid within, and entirely contained within the case which embraces all the parts.

Having thus fully described the nature of my invention, what I claim therein as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A coin safe, or receptacle for coin, consisting of the arrangement of the outer case A, spring 13, with its pad for holding the coin up against the top of the case, and slide G, with its projection, or their equivalents for forcing out the coin through the slot provided for the purpose substantially as described.

JACOB J. HATOHER.

Witnesses ROBERT F. FRY, THOMAS HATGHER. 

